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Why is it so hard to place breadcrumbs on every page!! Is there really no one who know how to do this without editing the core pages

take a look at “page.xml” in the /app/design/frontend/default/THEMENAME/layout/ folder you should be able to add the block to that.. I think. Quite new to Megento skinning myself.. but I’ve done that with a different area (moving the Shop By to the middle column).

If you’d like the breadcrumbs on every page you need to edit your phtml template files. eg: /template/page/3columns.phtml, /template/page/2columns-left.phtml, /template/page/2columns-right.phtml, etc.. depending which templates you want breadcrumbs on.

From here you need to add

Where you would like the breadcrumbs to go.

Did you try it?
Just adding this code it does not work for me.
Any idea?